FULL Il Cordovano (Petrassi) Reggio Emilia 1995 Antonucci Ruffini De Mola
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il Cordovano
- Composer: Petrassi Goffredo
- Libretto: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translation by Eugenio Montale Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Recorded: April 1995
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Paola Antonucci, Alessandra Ruffini, Cinzia De Mola, Stefano Rinaldi Miliani, Ezio di Cesare, Roberto Ferrari Melega, Claudio Lacava
- Conductor: Bruno Aprea
- Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Emilia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini"
- Chorus: Coro del Teatro Municipale di Reggio Emilia
- Chorus Master: Giovanni Di Stefano
- Stage Director: Emilio Sagi
- Stage Designer: Francesco Calcagnini
- Costume Designer: Paola Mariani
Information about the Recording
- Published by: parsifalstaff
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from GBOpera:
Opera on a libretto by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translation by Eugenio Montale.
First performance: Milan, May 12, 1949 (first version)
Donna Lorenza (soprano), married to the old man is very jealous Cannizares (bass), complains to her niece Cristina (soprano) and to the neighbor, Donna Hortigosa (mezzo-soprano), about her sad fate. Hortigosa thinks about how to alleviate the pains of the young Lorenza and devises a stratagem: with the excuse of selling a Cordovan (a tapestry) to the old Cannizzares, she lets a young man (mute character) enter the house, who ends up in Lorenza’s room. This, happy with the surprise, sings happily, and Cannizares, who at first thinks that his wife is joking, eventually becomes suspicious and wants to go into his room, but is hit full by a basin of water. Cristina taking advantage of the confusion to get the young man out of Lorenza’s room. She begins to inveigh against her husband who dares to take her reputation so poorly. In the final the guard (baritone), a Musico (tenor), dancers and Hortigosa, enter attracted by the din caused by the marital quarrel. But everything will end with dances and songs.